Speaker 1: All Star tell Yoda presents Off the Bench. We to
Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Okay, here we go where.
Speaker 1: The plays get broken down and science gets denied.
Speaker 2: The Bench.
Speaker 1: Hour two of Off the Bench Live from the Mercedes
Benz Baton Rouge Studio starts now.
Speaker 3: Welcome in our number two.
Speaker 4: Here on a Friday edition of Off the Bench, Taylor
Sharp sitting in for Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 3: Here on this Friday, we.
Speaker 4: Got about two hours left in our work week, and
guys were feeling good. I don't know if it's the
nickelback bump music or the energy drinks kicking in, but
uh good vibes here on this Friday. Like Elandra got
in late. Cassie said, you couldn't sleep last night. I
couldn't sleep last night. Like we came in on the
struggle bus.
Speaker 5: But I'm feeling really dead. I'm feel because shout out
you got his donuts.
Speaker 3: We did. We got some donuts of this. They were good.
Speaker 5: He was like, dang, Cassie hates wigging up early. I
told her, I told her yesterday donuts clutch.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I told her yesterday.
Speaker 4: I was okay, I'm I'm gonna bring you donuts, thanks
for a breakfast.
Speaker 5: That's what you should have brought her.
Speaker 4: Probably went open. I don't know, Tom Chick, but uh no,
this this is done a place open to like four
a m. So I was like, all right, we're you're gonna.
Speaker 5: We just looked at okay, so we should do.
Speaker 4: Here's a little behind the scenes, you guys. Cassie's sister Jesse,
also works for us, but she worked remotely, like she
helps a lot with all the social media as.
Speaker 5: She's also as no big deal right like MBD.
Speaker 4: Right, So that throw that in there to her list
of accomplishments. She showed up, she came into the office.
She was she was in better Ridge for something last Tuesday.
Me and Cassie our desk are right next to each other.
That's pretty unfortunate for Cassie.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I don't know how. I don't know how
she deals with you.
Speaker 3: You know, Like I'm just sitting there trying to get
my work done.
Speaker 4: Cassie's yapping, talking my head off pretty much all day long.
Speaker 5: So it's nobody believes that.
Speaker 4: It's it's just it's it's one of the hazards of
the job. But I work through it. We we worked
through it together. Anyways, Jesse was in the office last
week and like Cassie kind of perks up over there,
like what do you do. She's like, oh, Jesse's coming in,
Like so she's like, well she can, she can bring
me lunch. Yeah, And I was like and I'm like, okay,
clearly it's gonna be Chick fil A, don't I don't know?
Maybe maybe, And then like Jesse comes in the subway.
Speaker 3: She got her sublay and.
Speaker 6: She only got me Subway because I literally had Chick
fil A the day before and I was like, maybe
I shouldn't get it two days.
Speaker 5: In over both have fire pickles, like the pickles at
Chick fil A and somewhere a really good. I don't
know what they do to them or how they make
you know.
Speaker 4: It's funny. That's Subway the other day and I'm like
pickle stuff.
Speaker 5: Like I always They're like, yeah, yeah, I get extra
pickles at Subway and Chick fil A.
Speaker 3: I never really thought about that till just now.
Speaker 4: None of the the subway pickles or excellent I at
Chick fil A in a long time.
Speaker 5: Like don't I think we should do?
Speaker 4: Don't don't hate on me. For that at Chick fil
A in a really long time. Is it a big
deal that I haven't at Chick fil A in a
long time?
Speaker 5: Kind of yes it is. I mean, is there one
buy you?
Speaker 4: So there's one in Denim. Drive wise, it's probably ten
minutes from my house. But okay, remember the we played
the video here, remember the the damn eighteen wheeler that
hit the guy in the bucket truck. And I'm like,
I know where that is. That's the worst intersection ever.
It's right there, like at that intersection. So like it's
a ten minute drive, but it takes ten minutes to
get through the intersection by itself.
Speaker 3: I just don't feel like dealing with it. Like if
I get it, I.
Speaker 4: Get it on my way home from work, stopping in
Like I'm not going to go back to Denham once
already get home.
Speaker 3: So it's it's close but not all right?
Speaker 4: Well that that can be yours, okay, because right now
we normally do it on Thursdays.
Speaker 3: I love the segment. Wanted to bring it back on Friday.
Speaker 4: Let's do a little big deal or no big deal,
big deal, no big.
Speaker 7: Deal, big deal, no big deal, big deal, no big deal,
no big deal.
Speaker 8: I don't.
Speaker 5: A big deal.
Speaker 3: All right, I'll go first. This one's more for you too.
Speaker 4: So I watched the SP's on Wednesday, and we'll break
it down a little bit more at the at the
end of the hour, we'll close out out. Were number
two with that, But they gave out a lot of
different awards, one of which was Best Breakthrough Athlete. Paul
Skiing's not winning best Breakthrough Athlete, big deal and no
big deal?
Speaker 5: Who won it? The female? I do love her and
I do think that she had a bigger breakthrough than
Paul Skis. That's like saying, like, yes, didn't really have
a breakthrough. Yes I would.
Speaker 4: I would go pol Skiings only because, like I get it.
One place rugby one play baseball one's more popular in
the US. But like, was it GQ or Vanity Fair
wherever the hell that him and you had?
Speaker 3: Like the big photo shoot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like he just had the world record baseball card,
Like he set the record for the least amount of
starts before making an All Star Star.
Speaker 5: But he was already popular. Is my thing? I get it,
Like a lot really knew who.
Speaker 6: She love alone, She's Olympics. She's like I love her
now but I didn't know.
Speaker 5: Who she loved.
Speaker 3: We have, Yeah, I just but I.
Speaker 6: Think I think even after the National Championship, l she
like a lot of other people like.
Speaker 5: Know who they did.
Speaker 3: I just thought he had a big year.
Speaker 5: Yes, he was twenty twenty four. He could have been
the breakout star. But I guess she could have too. Yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, I like them both.
Speaker 4: I just I just thought, like, yes, award shows or
you know, they favored the big sports and maybe that's
why they did this. Maybe they were like, hey, look,
you know we give it to an NBA player or whatever,
like every year, let's fix it up a little bit.
Speaker 3: Not a bad choice.
Speaker 4: I was just like, man, I got Paul Like I
was looking back on it, and I was like, he
had a bigger year than I realized.
Speaker 3: Sorry, who's that? Y'all want to Landram?
Speaker 5: I guess big dealer, No big deal. UFC finally bringing
a pay per view back to New Orleans after ten
years for ten years, Yeah, I think he said maybe
a little less. I think he said two thousand and eight. Wait, no,
that wasn't ten years ago. Twenty sixteen might have been
his last fight here. I don't remember when it was, but.
Speaker 4: Okay, big dealer, no big deal a laundra being within
spitting distance of Dana White last night, right, she sends.
Speaker 3: Us a picture and I'm like, okay.
Speaker 5: So funny to me. I don't know why, but it was.
Speaker 4: She sends us this picture and it's like maybe, yeah,
I'm gonna send it to Cassie, and like I'm thinking, okay,
Like she's at the press converence. There's gonna be a
lot of people, and like most people got there like early, right,
like earlier in the day. I'm like, okay, but I'm like,
I'm thinking a lot of people got there like all day.
I'm like, she's probably gonna be in the back.
Speaker 5: No, wait, I'll send you this video to real quick
so you can see how close.
Speaker 9: I really was.
Speaker 3: Yeah, send it to Cassie.
Speaker 5: But did you send her the Dana one.
Speaker 4: I'm sitting it right now, like she's like me to
the door to Dana White.
Speaker 3: I'm like, what in the hell?
Speaker 5: I don't know why that was so funny to be
like Dana White. Just also, I think that's a big deal.
Speaker 4: You posted a picture of you petting a baby crocodile.
Speaker 3: The crocodile why was it there?
Speaker 5: Okay, So I don't know one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I was like, okay.
Speaker 5: So it was a media party that the UFC put
on in partnership with Visit Nolah. So I guess they
were just trying to make it like super New Orleans.
So there was like a chick reading tarot cards there too,
and they had.
Speaker 3: Like did you did you you participated in video last night?
Speaker 5: I didn't do the tarot cards because I was telling
y'all that I made some friends while I was there,
and they were like, man, you're gonna get cursed if
you go do the tarot cards. And I was like,
maybe I should lay off the tear. I wasn't gonna
do them. So that they had tarot cards, they had
somebody doing like airbrush tattoos. They had like a brass
band upstairs playing the entire time. So it was just
it was in the French Quarter, so it was at
the old Absent House, so they just, uh, I guess
they were just trying to make it super Nola. So
they had like a or quote unquote what people would
think New Orleans is, and so they had like a
crocodile and an alligator.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I was about to say, like alligator, Yeah.
Speaker 5: They had a gator too, crocodile.
Speaker 4: Not really us, but like yeah, either way, okay, cool
either way.
Speaker 5: And then he was like, which one you want to
take a picture with? And I was like, I don't
care whichever one. He gave me the crocodile. So I
don't know if that means the crocodile's nicer than the
alligator or like, I don't know what that means.
Speaker 4: But the gator got plaster d and it wasn't doing
media appearances that point. Crocodile's on a better behavior, but yeah.
Speaker 5: It was like super close. Yeah, I think that's a
big deal.
Speaker 3: Cassie.
Speaker 5: There's bald ass data white, bald bald.
Speaker 4: Like there hadn't been a follicle of hair on that
man's head in a decade. I mean, bald, bald, like
you want you look up, bald like him and Vin
Dieseler right there. Look, I mean, look, she's like Dana
White could have thrown something at her and hit her.
Speaker 5: You probably could have. I felt like we made eye contact.
Speaker 3: I bet you did. I bet Dana remember, I feel.
Speaker 5: Like me and paul A Costa. Paul A Costa. Wow,
I messed that up, Paul Costa. I feel like we
made eye contacts. She took it off.
Speaker 3: You got one.
Speaker 5: I made dealer, No big deal. No I don't.
Speaker 6: Actually, you literally just told me two seconds before this,
she said you.
Speaker 5: Didn't give her any time, two seconds before the second. Okay,
it's eight nine.
Speaker 3: Yes, we've been in the segment for nine minutes.
Speaker 6: Well, I'm sorry y'all been sending me pictures after.
Speaker 4: We have been big dealer, No big deal. What Cassie
ungrateful for the donuts?
Speaker 5: Huge deal?
Speaker 4: She should have been big deal. She's cranky right now.
She's trying to doorsh like I'm in the break. I'm
sitting right here, Cassie. Okay, at least do it behind
my back.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry. Alligator alligators jelly because they ain't got no shoes.
So the guy was telling me because I was like, dang,
this really does feel like boots like the croc really did.
And he was telling me that the top part of
the alligator or the crocodile, whichever one, that's what you
use for the boots, and the belly is what you
use for the belts, like so the crocodile belts and
the crocodile boots like the top parts of boot, the
bottom like the stomach area is the belt. You learn
something new every day.
Speaker 3: No, I didn't know who comes up with this?
Speaker 5: All right, that's the thing I was telling me.
Speaker 3: Big deal or no big deal?
Speaker 4: A run Jacob Hasster may have to disown Chargers quarterback
Justin Herbert. Why well, Justin Herbert is wearing UV contact
lenses to block out the sun so that he doesn't
have to squint as much. He said he actually tried
a darken advisor, but you have to wipe the sweat
and the smudges off.
Speaker 3: He didn't like it so like his eyes were red
in as his eyes were red.
Speaker 4: In a press conference, people like, what's going on, He's like, Oh,
these are UV contact lenses. I use them when it's
a bright outside. Big deal or no big deal. Justin
Herbert using UV protection.
Speaker 5: So that feels a little soft to me, feels like
a big deal because of Jake, And Jake is not
like a he doesn't like to protect himself from the sun.
Speaker 3: You're not on this show every day? Do you use sunscreen?
Speaker 5: I do?
Speaker 3: You're not good.
Speaker 5: I always get burned, so.
Speaker 3: You're splotching you with it, prettybody, be like yeah, I'm stuck.
Speaker 5: Good.
Speaker 3: No, I'm not good at the sunscreen, guys. It's a
it's a strong.
Speaker 6: I'm just I'm just not okay, I'm not good at reapplying.
Speaker 3: So then get Jake tells us he's never used it?
Speaker 5: How do you just not like I could never? No,
I don't really use it. I've used it before, but
I don't ever.
Speaker 2: Use it.
Speaker 4: Believe it or not, Guys, sunscreen sunscreen kind of a
must for me, if you can believe that my uh
skin doesn't naturally deflect it. Huge, huge surprise there, shocker
the century the pale blonde headed kid has seen use
sunscreen all the time. But uh yeah, I was reading
that article actually during break about justin Herbert, and I'm like, uh.
Speaker 5: Jane in the chat that Herbert's out here passing the
douchee with moose.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's the red eyes UV things. Actually a
load of crab.
Speaker 5: V contact lenses before I have not the.
Speaker 3: New V protection lenses or the is it the term that.
Speaker 5: Herbert just look into the sun like a normal person,
just burn your cornea is like.
Speaker 3: A normal.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, who cares your quarterback how about you
guys just chuck the ball downfield.
Speaker 3: Your receiver will go get it. Do you really need
to see?
Speaker 5: You got Lad McConkie, right right, you got Lad?
Speaker 3: You got another one for us?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 5: Not really? I have your video. Do you want to play?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you can play it. You don't need sound. But
it's pretty cool. Daniel Cormier did the face off between
Max Holloway and Dustin.
Speaker 6: Actually it's literally just a screen video.
Speaker 5: This video is awesome and Cassie's like, nah, it's literally
just a blank screen.
Speaker 4: Sorry, guys, Right, that's riveting stuff right there on ESPN's Instagram.
I'm jealous, Like Land, you got to look at a
black I mean MiNet on Instagram.
Speaker 5: I can pull it up. Oh yeah, it is on
Instagra all right, I got one.
Speaker 4: While she's pulling that up right before we take a
break here. Big deal or no big deal? Damian Lillard
yesterday signed a deal to go back to the Portland Trailblazers.
Speaker 3: I think this is a big deal.
Speaker 4: Not because Portland's going to be some title contender, but look,
James dealt with a lot of injuries over the years.
He's about thirty four or thirty five years old. Like,
to me, this is Damian Lillard, say, in retirement right
around the corner. It's a two year deal. He's going
back to Portland. Like that's where he That's where he
always wanted to be. I mean, you heard it time
and time again. A lot of people had said, hey,
Damian Lillard wasted his prime playing for a bad team
like Portland, and then Dame would come out in response
and say, this is where I want to be, Like
I want to stay in Portland for life. Now contract
dispute got in the way of things. He ultimately left
for a few years. But Damian Lillard going back to
Portland like not a big deal in terms of like,
oh this shakes up the entire hierarchy of the NBA
or anything like that. But Damian Lillard, like, I think
in a few years that might be it for him.
I think he went back to Portland to ultimately retire
as a Trailblazer.
Speaker 3: Do we have the video? Yeah, so let's see this video.
Speaker 5: Let's go look at that. I'm right there, DC out
here coming out. Everybody was like whoa, okay, so did
you did you hear the player press confinence away? Huh
did you get to hear the player press conference, I
mean fighter press conference. Yeah, I was that the press conference.
Speaker 4: I didn't know because, like you said, there was like
a media thing beforehand that you didn't get to go.
Speaker 5: To, get to go to the media day on Wednesday, Okay,
but I went to the press conference yesterday.
Speaker 3: Look at that? How was Max? Like we obviously see
a lot of dustin. Yeah, yeah, I assumed he was electric.
Speaker 5: I mean, I love Max Holloway. This is hard because
I love both of them so much. They're both like
some of my favorite fighters. But Max was like everybody
should be. They would boo him whenever he would talk,
and he's like they should be booing me. Showed this
man his love, Like I where it's his retirement fight.
We're in Louisiana, boomy, Like he's awesome.
Speaker 4: Also, like win or lose, you'll you'll be hard pressed
to fight a UFC fighter tougher than Max Holloway, Like,
dude gets the crap beat out of him. He's a
he's a tough dude. All right, Look, we're gonna take
a time out when we get back. We took a
little New Orleans saying said on that a ton this
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Speaker 3: Set the start up next week.
Speaker 4: We'll get a little preview of it from our guy
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Speaker 1: Locked in on LSU football twenty four to seven. You're
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Speaker 4: Welcome back in hour number two here on a Friday
edition of Off the Bench, Jac and Matt back on Monday.
Taylor Sharp here with you right now, filling in for
the guys here for the remainder of the day, and
normally we have him on on Tuesdays.
Speaker 3: We didn't get to.
Speaker 4: Him because the SEC medy days, but I had to
have our guy Nick Underhill loan.
Speaker 3: He's a wealth of knowledge.
Speaker 4: You got training camp coming up, so we're gonna go
out through the phone lines. Nick Underhill, New Orleans dot
Football joining us right now.
Speaker 3: Nick, how are you on this Friday?
Speaker 10: I'm how you doing doing good?
Speaker 4: Thanks for thanks for hopping on and know it's been
a crazy week. We kind of had to adjust a
few things. Look, Nick, Saints training camp right around the corner.
But we're all want to start, you know. It's all
the talk had been about these second round picks all
holding out, you know, contract situations and all that, Like
where do they stand with shot contract wise?
Speaker 3: Right now, it's.
Speaker 10: Still a standoff.
Speaker 7: The guys ahead of them are still getting fully guaranteed deals.
I think Seattle just gave one last night for the
thirty fifth pick and Chuck's pick forty.
Speaker 10: So I think where it's.
Speaker 7: Kind of at right now is you saw it just
kind of over the last couple of days, like the
Avalanche and the back half of the second round, those
guys have all started to sign because one of them
buckled and accepted non guaranteed money, So that means everyone
behind him isn't getting all of their money guaranteed. But
as it stands right now, Houston guaranteed that that contract
to the thirty third pick, so everybody behind him is
still kind of holding out to see if they can
get their contract fully guaranteed. And Chuck is it pick forty.
Speaker 10: So I think it's just a.
Speaker 7: Matter of seeing what happens ahead of him or seeing
if the Saints buckle at this point.
Speaker 10: And you know, it's kind of.
Speaker 7: A a funny thing. I mean, I get it from
from a team perspective, and you know it's Pablo Tory
and Mike Florio ben pointing out like there there is
a lot of reason to believe there's a collusion in
the NFL, and you know, I think, you know, this
is a situation where teams obviously don't want to set
a precedent, and there you know it's out in the open.
If you guarantee down to pick forty seven this year,
then next year everybody down to pick forty seven is
getting guaranteed, and nowt pick forty eight fighting and then
you know, before you know it, the guy it's into
the third round and the third rounders are fighting for it.
So I get it from a team perspective, you know,
for for Tyler Shuck and these other guys, like the
real issue at hand here is really comes down to,
you know, a little bit about a million bucks. A
million is some change of money they want guaranteed. It's
less than ten percent of the total contract. It's not
going to change anybody's reality really, you know, And if
we were talking about it safety, I might feel a
little bit different about it, you know, like, Okay, well
you probably want to be able to walk away in
year four if it doesn't work out. Isaiah Foski was
the fortiest picking the draft at one point in time.
You know, as I look at it, if it doesn't
work out this year, I hope they can walk away
from him and not have any debt money.
Speaker 10: On the books.
Speaker 7: On the flip side of this, So we're talking about
a quarterback, like a guy that they drafted at forty
to start this year. I mean, it's kind of an
unprecedented situation. I can't remember the last time a second
rounder was drafted with the idea that they were going
to have to start on you know, potentially day one
if things work out. I mean, it's just it's a
crazy situation. And you know, kind of through that context,
like let's let's change the parameters of this discussion. Like
if if Tyler Shuck, you know, had an ankle sprain
and there was a guy in Germany that could get
him back on the field without missing a practice, but
it would cost one point five million dollars to heal
the ankle. I don't think anybody would got an eye
her spending that money, you know, to get him back
on the field.
Speaker 10: Like I think the time is that and arrative in
this situation.
Speaker 7: I you know, I think it day missed is a
huge missed opportunity. So, you know, they took the last
day off of Mini camp, and like privately, like I
hated it. It's like you got two guys that are
trying to get ready for the season and you're not
practicing today, and you know, they were kind of practicing
a double time. They got all their reps in. Like
I understand it, team building matters too, but like looking
at it that way, I was just kind of like,
man like Tyler Shuck Like the other day, it practices invaluable.
If this goes into training camp and he's missing days,
like I feel like it's a it's a it's a
huge opportunity loss. You know, the way these things are
kind of falling into place, it seems like it's probably
gonna get settled before then. You know, I will say that,
like we saw how this thinks tweated out Derek Carr
and you know all these other guys like Mickey Loomis
does not bolden these situations very often. So it's gonna
be interesting to see what happens if they're still at
a standoff. But like you know, the matter end is
really about a million dollars in guaranteed money four years
from now, and you know I've killed them for their
cop management for you, So I don't want to like
sit here and talk out of like both sides of
my mouth. But like I don't know, man a million
bucks on having a chance to a better chance of
fixing your quarterback situation, Like if it comes down to
Tuesday morning in this ain't done. I can't sit here
and say that. I'm not going to be standing there
on the sideline like, you know, wondering what the hell
they're doing, Like I would just give them the money
at that point.
Speaker 4: Right right, speaking of camp coming up, Nick, obviously everyone's
going to watch the quarterback battle if Shuck's there, between
Shuck and Spencer Rattler, but maybe outside of QB like
top position battles you're watching, what are those?
Speaker 7: I mean, there's a handful of might think, you know,
I think especially running backs one behind Camara that that's
really interesting. There's a lot of veteran guys there, Kendrick Miller,
Clyde Edwards, Hilaire, you know, they're out in the rookie
like there's a bunch of guys that I think are
competing for Repso that that make it really interesting, you know,
I think safety's kind of a quietly and interesting situation too,
Like they were seem to be really high on Jordan
Alden during these these practices.
Speaker 10: During the you know, the part of the summer, they
brought in Jonna Stanker.
Speaker 7: You know, Tyron's obviously there reads obviously there. I don't
know how they're all going to fit together. They were
playing Howden with the starter's opposite read. You know, Tyrone
was obviously you know, not at the voluntary portion. Was
brought back a little bit slowly through mini camp. I
expect him to be back out there with the ones,
but you know, I think they have a high view
of Jordan Houten, and you know, kind of how that
all sorts out, I think it's gonna be fascinating. But
I really do think the biggest one other than than quarterback,
besides Trevor Penning versus himself and just trying to be
a competent player, I think the other one is at
cornerback between Quincy Riley and Ikey Adam. And I think
that kind of like like pretty big future implications as well. Now,
obviously like odds are probably you know, maybe both of
them don't don't work out as a long term solution,
But if Riley can win that job and he's he's
a solid starter. I mean, that's a huge answer going
into the next year. And we've talked, you know, bunch
of times on here just about how uncertain opposition is
and how much they really might have to invest in
it next off season. If Alante Taylor gets out of here,
you know, Bulloyds still under contract, but I think he
you know, had some stuff to prove this year, and
then you have the.
Speaker 10: Hole at the other one still.
Speaker 7: If you got two holes like that's that's a lot
to try to figure out, you know, especially if you're
you're trying to draft an edge rusher and you might
need uh, you know, if you aren't planning on signing
Chris Olave to the the Garrett Wilson contract, you know,
wide receiver is a huge need next year. So if
you can, well not next year, but I mean, you'd
beating the last year of that deal and be staring
it down. But yeah, I mean, I think, I think, uh,
I think that cornerback position is a huge one. If
you can scratch it off the list, it would be
it would be a.
Speaker 10: Massive thing to the future of the franchise.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Nick, A lot of people have been talking about
that cornerback battle. But I want to go back to
something you just mentioned about Jonah Sinker at that safety spot, Like, look,
you bringing Justin Reid.
Speaker 3: He's still have tiring there. You mentioned Jordan.
Speaker 4: Howden, But whether it's you, whether it's you know, anybody
that's been out there has raved about Jonah Sanker, Like,
is there a realistic shot that he could start at
safety for this team this year.
Speaker 7: I don't know if he starts, but I think he's
definitely in that you know, development canon to where there's
actual potential that I really really liked watching him. You know,
I think the guy that gets the most value out
of him this year is gonna be fau Galiano.
Speaker 10: On special teams.
Speaker 7: His special teams rapture like insane. Really you go through
it and watch that stuff, and there's not a lot
of a lot of like, you know, gunners.
Speaker 10: That you go and watch on you know, and you
can get a whole YouTube.
Speaker 7: Cut up of them, but like they're out there at
him and and he looks really really good there. His
instincts really stood out in camp. You know, he jumps
routes well. I think kind of the vision based defense
that plays suits his skill set really well, just kind
of can sit back there and read stuff and make
some plays. You know, I think he has a chance
to get some real reps this year, but you know,
I think I think the most likely thing is is
sort of you know, like they bring in bon Belly
year early and you know that type of situation where
where they get some reps is a rookie there in
that development situation and then they're ready, uh the next year.
But I mean having those any of those guys exposed
to tiring like for a year, I think helps quite
a bit. You know, the leadership actors really good. But
I think when it comes down to it, the starters
are going to be going to be reading tiring probably,
you know, and a Nickel package that looks like they're
probably leaning more toward H three H three corners, you know,
in Dime. I think he could maybe get some some
Dime reps for sure, him and how they'll be competing
for that, so I think he'll be opportunities there.
Speaker 10: For him to get on the field.
Speaker 7: But look, if he if he were to push his
way up this year, that'd be outstanding. You know, they
need good young players to build around. I don't think
there's enough on the team. I think he does have
a chance for to be a good player. I really
really like that pick. I like the value and even
if it's not like it's safety, I think he's going
to be an absolute weapon on special teams.
Speaker 4: That's one more for you before we get you out
of here. Nick Underhill of New Orleans that football joining
us right now? I want to switch to the offensive side, Nick.
I was skinning New Orleans not football yesterday reading the
article you guys put out about you know what you
want Alvin Kamara's role to be in the upcoming season,
But like you know, we know Kamara is going to
be the lead back, Like there's no question about that.
Speaker 3: I want to look at the guys.
Speaker 4: Maybe behind him, because there's a lot of bodies there
all of a sudden, but not a ton of proven
guys in terms of this this building. Like who do
you think kind of emerges behind Alvin Kamara?
Speaker 7: Man, that's such a tough question. I mean, I I'd
probably put my bet on Devin Neil right now, just
because like I don't know, like they got something invested
at them. But man, like it's just it's it's so
wide open and I don't know that anyone really distinguished themselves.
Speaker 10: In uh in the summer portion of practice.
Speaker 7: I hate that, Like I just can't. I can't quit
on Hendrey Miller, Like I have no idea, but like
I just feel like there has to be a football
coach somewhere inca that can take his skill set and
put him on the field and just find a way
to get used out of him, even if it isn't
perfect everywhere else, Like we've seen him rip off like
eleven year old runs when when he doesn't know the play,
Like there has to be a way to make it
work with him. I mean, his his athleticism, his ability
is crazy. I talked to him earlier this offseason. He
told me this is like the most comfortable he's ever
felt coming into a season.
Speaker 10: He was healthy the whole offseason.
Speaker 7: He can focus more on, you know, what he needs
to do in the role instead of trying to get healthy.
He feels like he's ready to hit the ground running.
You know, he's out there practicing and you know the
OTAs in mini camp the first time in his career.
Like maybe that sets up for him, But I don't know.
I mean, I think it's I think it's one of
the most fascinating things, you know, going into these practices
and you know, the thing that I always it's just hard.
It's hard to tell, like in a training camp situation too,
because they aren't tackling, and you know, I'm just reminded
of twenty seventeen, Like we're out there the whole summer
watching those practices and like, we know Alvin's.
Speaker 10: Good, Like there's things that stand.
Speaker 7: Out, but we had no idea, like about the contact
balance and what he was actually gonna be. And there
you go back and look at that coverage, there's no
one like predicting difference maker superstar status is like, yeah,
they got it. They got a nice back, like you
might give him the satellite back they've by missing. Then
you get to the preseason and in that first game
he has the crazy run. He's bouncing off everybody. It's like,
who the hell is this guy? And you know, it's
just kind of it's kind of hard from our perspective
to really like no out here for it. So I
think that's really gonna be something.
Speaker 10: That we kind of see in the UH in the preseason,
but it is.
Speaker 7: It is a big battle and it is like it's
important to a certain degree. I mean, you don't want
Alvin having to carry the ball to two hundred and
fifty times like, you know, for for my money, Like
I want him around here for you know, a couple
more years. I don't want him to get worn out
and just get used up in a season that just probably,
you know, all things considered, probably isn't gonna amount to
a whole lot. So you know, I just don't want
to see him like has to be the the focal
point of the offense on like every single play you
already got. You know, a young quarterback probably aren't gonna
be all a lot of the touch there, Like you're
probably figuring like thirty eight hundred yards or something like that.
That's what Jayden and Caleb were at last year, So
I means you're gonna be running a lot. So you know,
RB two is gonna be a very important position.
Speaker 4: Nick Underhill love New Orleans Dot Football. Check out him
and the team stuff over there at New Orleans Dot Football. Nick,
thank you so much for hopping on with me today.
Speaker 10: Yeah, no problem, man, take it easy.
Speaker 4: Yep, that was Nick Underhill. Alright, We're going to take
a time out when we get back. Look NFL coaches
at execs all week long, they've been kind of putting
out different position rankings heading into the season. Well, the
other day they put out their top ten wide receivers
in the NFL. And again this is NFL coaches and execs.
I think it's definitive now that LSU is wide receiver.
You we're talking about it next here on off the bench.
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Speaker 1: What you want from the locker room to the airwaves.
Gets off the bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 7: Ten plus me.
Speaker 5: Do you know about Matt making me sing this on
a fr Yes, I did not hear it, but I did.
Speaker 4: I heard about it. Yeah, I was thinking. I was like,
we've been a little long with Nick. This is already
gonna be a short segment like listening to Nickelback.
Speaker 3: Man, this is this is a vie.
Speaker 4: This might be the song, Like everybody's got a favorite
Nickelback song, This might be the one.
Speaker 3: This is this is a good one.
Speaker 5: James.
Speaker 4: I have a video Cassie of me and my brother
in law sober screaming this song as loud as we
could at the concert.
Speaker 5: Wait, so I saw Taylor there, like we It was
so weird because this place is huge, right, and like
there's people everywhere. But somehow Taylor and I found we
did try.
Speaker 3: To find a spot though there was a little bit
off to the side.
Speaker 5: Yeah, somehow, like Taylor and I run into each other
and so like we're hanging out or whatever, and I'm like, wait,
none of y'all have like a beer in your hand,
like they none of them were drinking. And I was like,
what is happening?
Speaker 7: Why?
Speaker 5: Why are none of y'all drinking right now?
Speaker 4: Nope, there was a video completely completely sober tailor not
even Victorious screaming, screaming at the.
Speaker 3: Top of his lungs in this song, and like it shit,
that's that's how it goes, Cassie.
Speaker 4: Sometimes sometimes vibes are so high you don't need the
liquid courage.
Speaker 3: You can just you can use it, go for it.
I was like, no one, you can raw dog the concert.
That's exactly what we did. They do it we did.
Speaker 5: It was so weird, Like not it's not weird that
people were so we at a concert. Maybe it's weird
that I think that that's weird. But I was like, wait,
not like not even your sister had a beer or
not drink.
Speaker 3: Nope, well, no, one, it's not true. When you left,
me and Victoria went and got.
Speaker 5: A large coke icy, so we had a d y'all, relax, we.
Speaker 12: Would fancy that was like an ellaricy. Okay, So the
beers were so expensive, right, and uh, Victoria wanted a
T shirt or maybe I wanted a T shirt.
Speaker 2: Who knows.
Speaker 4: We're not going to get into specifics either way. We
both bought Nickelback T shirts that I may or may
not have warn it.
Speaker 3: I know I'll wear it Monday. I wear it, Okay,
I just I never I never think about it.
Speaker 4: Ninety ninety dollars for two T shirts's coat and I
mean they were literally like this said Nickelback.
Speaker 5: Sick ass dustin Poorier like retirement T shirt that they
have out right now. And I was going to buy it,
but it's sixty dollars and I'm like, but it's so cool,
but I also don't want to spend sixty dollars on this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, but you have like to pass though, there's
gonna be someone knickknacks on a table.
Speaker 3: You can just come. You're like, grab it, yeah, grab
and go.
Speaker 5: True. I'm mad I missed the media day because everybody
has these cool backpacks.
Speaker 4: See, you'll get something. You will get something today. It's
the day before at least the day of the right. Okay,
Now do you know where you were sitting for this?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 5: I don't know. I wish I knew.
Speaker 3: I didn't know the viewing there because I don't either.
Speaker 5: I mean, even if it's a press box, that's totally
that sounds so annoying for me to be like it's
fine if I'm in the press box.
Speaker 4: Like I've never been to a UFC fight, like in person,
Like you know, I watch them all the time. I
always wonder like I feel like there's a fine line
of sitting too high up or too close.
Speaker 3: I feel like there's there's a there's a middle.
Speaker 5: I don't feel like sitting by the cage would.
Speaker 4: Be cause you're looking like almost straight up like the cages.
That's what I'm saying, Like, I don't know if I
want to do that now it's a quick fight, maybe
be like this is a five rounder and I'm doing
like this the entire time.
Speaker 2: I don't want to do that.
Speaker 5: I feel like middle is a perfect agree somebody.
Speaker 4: If I'm too high, I'm looking down like I got
a better view with TV at that point.
Speaker 3: But a little bit of a fine line.
Speaker 5: Me and Cassie ordered Chick fil A in the break
what's okay, what's the order?
Speaker 3: What's the order? This segment we were going to get
to not important. We can push that down with and we.
Speaker 6: Both always chick sometimes I'll get that like the hash brumble,
but I like the Chicken Mini.
Speaker 4: Okay, hot take. This will be my This will be
my hot take for the day. I like to get
one a day. You may have to be restrained by
a laundro when I say this, Why I love Chick
fil A.
Speaker 5: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 3: Not crazy about Chick fil a breakfast, That's all I'm saying.
I love Chick fil A. It's just like their breakfast.
Speaker 5: It's fine, that's ok.
Speaker 4: I'm good with Chick fil A lunch and dinner. I'm
all about Chick fil A breakfast.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just chick fil A.
Speaker 3: So I don't care, right you Okay, you just you
just want just wants to smell the bag.
Speaker 2: She doesn't.
Speaker 3: Actually you shouldn't actually care if any.
Speaker 4: Things in it.
Speaker 3: She she just wants the bag and look at the logo.
Speaker 2: She does.
Speaker 4: Actually, you pulled out I don't remember what you were
eating the other day. I guess you brought something for lunch.
And you pull out a fork. It's like she has
like these, you know, plastic forks in her desk, and
like it's it's wrapped up every it's the forkspoon knife,
paper towel, all that, And Mussa looks over and it's like,
there's no way that's not from Chick fil A. And
I look and it's it's the black fork, And I think,
oh yeah, you hit the Gales.
Speaker 5: Ice cream ice cream and I broke with and I'm pretty.
Speaker 4: Sure Chick fil A does have the black plastic silverware.
So like there was no way, there was no way
that was not from Chick fil A. All right, look,
why don't we just break a little bit early here,
we'll come back. We'll actually recap the SP's there's a
lot to get into.
Speaker 3: I watched it.
Speaker 4: Sounds like Landra watched it as well. We'll kind of
give our favorite parts. Well, we'll close ou out with
number two coming back here on off the bench.
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Speaker 4: The second door is on the sneak, all right, welcome
back in final segment, hour number two. Here on a
Friday edition of Off the Bench, Jacob Pester Matt Flynn
will be back on Monday. Taylor Sharp in the host chair,
which makes it Nickel Back Day and a Landra's she's
bringing out the emotions this morning, guys, like we got
a little we got a little photograph action, Like, I mean,
just every song this morning, banger after banger after banger.
But what do you expect on Nickelback Day? All right,
just a few minutes before we break here for the
top of the hour. I don't know if you guys
watched the SP's it occurred on Wednesday night. I did,
because well, I'm a sports nerd and I watch any
sort of sports that I could gravitate to. There's been
a lot of discussion about Shane Gillis. I thought he
crushed it. I really did, like he was hilarious. Prettybody
didn't watch it, like so two jokes stood out to me.
The chador Sanders joke. Gee, big surprise. Taylor enjoyed the joke,
taking a shot at Shudor Sanders. Yes, I know, but
it was hilarious.
Speaker 5: Hear.
Speaker 4: It basically went along the lines of Gillis saying, hey,
should Or Sanders got his jersey retired at Colorado. He's like,
it's totally not because of nepotism. He's like, it's totally
because Shador Sanders went thirteen and twelve and almost won
the Alamo Bowl.
Speaker 3: And to me, that was just perfect.
Speaker 4: And obviously the Dion Sanders defenders take everything personal and
they went to social media and criticized it. Guys, it's funny,
it's lighthearted and like, let's be honest. It was ridiculous
from the start the Chador's jersey got retired before he
well even officially left school. Travis Hunter, I'm good with
he won the Heisman Trovy, Shador Sanders thirteen to twelve,
fifth round pick, didn't even win the.
Speaker 3: Alimo Bowl like that.
Speaker 4: Objectively, it was. It was a little ridiculous, but great joke. Alandra,
did you hear the WNBA Joe?
Speaker 5: I did. Weren't there like a couple Like there's a
Caitlin Clark one, and then you.
Speaker 3: Know what, You're right, I should have specified.
Speaker 5: There is a Caitlin Clark one, and then there is
the one where he said his wife's name and was like, ah,
I'm joking. I thought they were both funny, but also like,
I hate that everybody in those rooms, like our award shows,
take themselves so seriously because it makes it seem like
he's bombing when really, like, I think the jokes are setting.
Speaker 4: There and my pants on the couch, nobody in the
audience and everybody is like just all up at he like,
just not enjoying it.
Speaker 3: But you're at a sports award show. It's not that serious.
Speaker 5: It's really not and it's just a joke.
Speaker 4: I'm talking about the w NBA joke with Britney Hicks,
the fake w NBA play show.
Speaker 3: It's funny.
Speaker 5: Could have fooled me.
Speaker 3: Look, hand up.
Speaker 4: I don't watch the w n B A I don't
know a lot of the players, but I know the
big name players like Tarassi, Kayln Clark, Asa Wilson, a
Leah Boston, like you know those people.
Speaker 3: And he said, or just with our chick.
Speaker 5: Cassie, Oh what I'm sorry, secured Iuscuri.
Speaker 4: Cassie's every there with a junkie itch. She's like, guys,
my dealer came through. Friday's turning around anyway. So would
there have been an Adam Gattuso sighting in the parking
lot this morning? Are you door dashed?
Speaker 3: Door dashed?
Speaker 5: Right? But yeah, no, I thought I thought he was funny.
But yes, the w NBA joke was great.
Speaker 4: So I'm sitting there and he goes, four time w
NBA champ Britney Hicks is here, and I look at
Victoria and I'm like, I don't know what ton about
this sport. I don't think Britney Hicks is a real person.
He goes, everybody give it up for Britney Hicks. The
lady starts waving, and these people that are like, you
gotta bring more attention to the w n B A
of course, they're up and they're they're they're applaud and
they're clapping, and he goes, hey, guys, that's my buddy's wife.
She's not even real. He's like, that's my point. Nobody
knows anything about the w NBA. People were pissed, and
it's like, I get it. He called you out on
your own hypocrisy and you didn't even realize it until
it was too late. To me, that was the joke
of the night just because how it was delivered.
Speaker 5: The Caitlin Clark one was funny too.
Speaker 3: The waffle House yeah was great too.
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't think we should repeat.
Speaker 3: It, right, but but that's what I look about it,
Like he he pushed the envelope and he did care right,
like yeah, and he he made he made fun of
everybody like he made fun of Donald Trump. And he
was totally right about Shane.
Speaker 4: He was totally right about the Trump thing about like
can we stop acting like Trump and those sports, like
every time he goes to the Whitehouse. Yeah, our guy,
Donald Trump. You can tell he has never heard of
this team in his life. Like when he said that,
I was like, no, Like you're you're right on that. Yeah,
you're right on that. Like that's that is that is
one hundred percent true. But I thought he was great.
Speaker 5: We all know I love Shane Gillis, Like.
Speaker 4: Gillis is great, and you're going in like, Okay, I'm
watching this for Shane Gillis, right, because honestly, the Award
show itself, I thought was one of the worst. Sb's
not because of Shane Gillis, Like, I don't know how
much of it you watch.
Speaker 5: No, I don't watch any of it. I just watched
the clips of Shane online.
Speaker 4: Victoria wanted to watch season three of the Summer I
turned pretty in our bedroom.
Speaker 3: Okay, she's watched also terrible ship.
Speaker 1: No, no.
Speaker 2: Show.
Speaker 3: It's an awful ship. Okay, horrible. I have seen all
of season one. I've gotten so bad. I've gotten enough.
Speaker 4: Because we're me and Victoria on vacation like two summers ago,
and she's like, we're watching this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the condo has like one TV, so like
I'm having to watch it too. I'm done. I'm done. Cassie, Cassie,
Team Jeremiah, Team Conrad.
Speaker 5: I don't remember. I also read the book so like
Conrad so much better in the books too.
Speaker 3: I'm team to one. I'm only one season.
Speaker 5: That girl is so annoying.
Speaker 3: Belly. First off, you're going by Belly. That's the name
you want to go by.
Speaker 4: Really, that's what we're choosing, waiting objectively, such a better
name than Belly, Like no, I could have done without,
like the little impromptu musical performances, like if you want
to do a musical performance at the SPS.
Speaker 5: Did they do that?
Speaker 4: They did it like three times. But first off, it
was nobody anybody had ever heard of, Like Buster Rhymes
was there?
Speaker 1: That was it?
Speaker 2: That was it?
Speaker 3: Like have you ever heard of clips?
Speaker 4: Never clips? But take out the e Nope, nope. They
were apparently a big deal there. They had like three
or four people like that, Oh yeah, I don't know
who this is. Oh and then Flage Johnson comes up
cool with Buster Rhymes and I'm like, oh cool, Like
Flage is going to do a song. Yeah, nope, you
just presented an award and said now all right.
Speaker 3: But every musical performance it went like thirty seconds and
then they like rush them off stage. That is weird.
Speaker 4: So it's like they kind of brought up people I
don't really know who this is. And then they did
like half a song and left. It was no more
than like a minute at a time. This little didn't
like that best play was a disaster like Saquon Barkley's
reverse hurdle. Yeah, best play, great moment. I hate to
be this guy. Like that was a twelve yard run?
Like why is like go go watch it? That was
a twelve yard run and then the other nominee is
like Sabrina Unescu hits a deep three.
Speaker 3: Yeah, US women's national team got a goal in a
big moment, but like who won it?
Speaker 4: And then but like the goal itself wasn't that in
present the moment was great, and then the fourth play was.
Speaker 3: I don't even remember. I don't remember what the fourth
played was.
Speaker 4: Not oh, Tyre's Hellibert and hitting the game winner in
the NBA Finals, But I'm like, that was game one
and you lost the series. So like all the top
players were aw whole, like I would have picked maybe
I don't know the Cooper Dishene interception on Patrick Mahomes
and the Super Bowl, Like there's just a thought, like
you know, something like that. But I thought Gillis did
a great job. I think people need to quip me
in so sensitive. All right, coming up here an hour
number three. To lead off Hour three, Mike Scarborough, Tiger
Bay dot COM's hopping on kind of previewing LO LSU football,
and then we're gonna wrap this show up with ask
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